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British media gloating betrays masterminds behind Kirillov’s killing

Finian Cunningham

    

December 19, 2024

The reveling by the British news media over the assassination of a top Russian general in Moscow is revealing in several ways.

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The reveling by the British news media over the assassination of a top Russian general in Moscow is revealing in several ways.

First of all, it is a sickening display of wretched so-called journalism. The celebratory tone in British media outlets at the sight of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov’s bloodied corpse lying in the snow speaks volumes of a despicable lack of respect. It says something about the depraved depth of British culture.

By comparison, the reporting of the assassination by American media outlets was relatively mundane and matter-of-fact.

Not so in Britain. The British media were almost euphoric in their reaction.

The Pentagon’s response was significant. Spokesman Patrick Ryder denied any U.S. involvement in the killing. He said the Americans were not forewarned about the assassination and he added that the United States did not support such action.

Of course, such denials should always be treated with skepticism.

However, while the Americans had the decency to remain reserved, the British were giddy in their ghoulishness.

The London Times editorial board declared that Lt Gen. Kirillov was a “legitimate target” for assassination.

The Daily Telegraph ran an oped piece by Hamish de Bretton-Gordon with the headline: “Putin’s chemical weapons henchman Kirillov was a truly evil man. He deserved to die.”

Meanwhile, the BBC blithely used the Foreign Office’s description of Kirillov as a “notorious mouthpiece for Kremlin disinformation” to convey an implicit justification for murder.

Over at the Guardian, their Russophobic reporter, Luke Harding, abandoned all pretense of journalistic standards by glorifying Ukraine’s military intelligence service (SBU) for its “success,” adding: “The agency has cemented its reputation as an outfit that administers its own form of brutal extrajudicial justice. It is an abrupt and swift form of vengeance, delivered as if from the heavens.”

The Ukrainian secret services were no doubt involved. The SBU is claiming responsibility and distributing a video to Western outlets of the bombing outside the Moscow apartment block, which killed Kirillov and his assistant as they walked out of the building on Tuesday morning.

Russian security services (FSB) have reportedly arrested a 29-year-old Uzbek national who says Ukrainian agents recruited him to plant the explosive-laden scooter at the street-side doorway of Kirillov’s apartment block. The suspect says he was promised payment of $100,000 and a European passport.

That all points to the higher involvement of NATO military intelligence services in the assassination. The American CIA and Britain’s MI6 are the two principal players behind Ukraine’s military intelligence.

But the circumstances indicate that the British are the primary culprits.

In October, Britain put sanctions on Kirillov after London accused him of overseeing the use of chemical weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine, a charge that Moscow vehemently denied. The British provided no credible evidence – only hackneyed claims – and, besides, the allegation does not make sense, given that Russia is decisively winning the conflict. Why would it need to resort to using chemical weapons?

Lt Gen. Kirillov was chief of the Russian army’s Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces. His investigators had uncovered what they claimed to be a secret and illegal network of Pentagon-run biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine. The investigations provided substantive evidence that the bioweapons labs were authorized at U.S. presidential level and involved major American pharmaceutical companies. Typically, the West rubbished the claims as “Kremlin disinformation” without considering the information.

In other words, Kirillov’s work was mainly focused on interdicting NATO-run weapons of mass destruction, not on overseeing their use, as the British claimed.

Kirillov was the most senior Russian military commander to have been killed since the conflict in Ukraine erupted three years ago.

The British objective was to demonize Kirillov as a “chemical weapons henchman” and “an evil man.” That move was then followed by the Ukrainian secret services accusing the Russian general of being a “war criminal”. This week, on the day before his assassination, the Ukrainian published a death notice.

One could argue that the Americans had more motive to eliminate Kirillov than the British, given his potentially incriminating investigations into the bioweapons and the way it implicated President Biden.

But, arguably, that was not the motive behind his assassination. He was merely a high-profile target for a psychological operation.

Ukrainian opposition political figure Viktor Medvedchuk makes the important observation that Britain has taken over from the United States as the main intelligence player behind the Kiev regime. He says that the British are using the Ukrainian puppet president Vladimir Zelensky and his cronies to launder much of the U.S. and European money sent to Ukraine to end up in London’s banks.

With the incoming U.S. President Donald Trump expressing concern about winding down the Ukraine conflict and cutting off the financing of the Kiev junta, Britain wants to sabotage any such initiative. It wants to prolong the conflict and the money racket.

Assassinating a senior Russian commander in Moscow is aimed at humiliating the Kremlin and provoking an escalation of the conflict in a way that scuppers any possible peace negotiations with Trump, who takes up office in four weeks.

The British media’s gloating about the murder of Igor Kirillov and his assistant Ilya Polikarpov reveals Britain’s nefarious hand.

Not only was the victim vilified and condemned, the killing was glorified. The BBC, in particular, showed a keen interest in reporting on the “deep shock” felt by Muscovites in the immediate aftermath of the deadly explosion.

The state-owned outlet opined: “People living in the area told the BBC of their deep sense of shock. Even after nearly three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, for many Muscovites, the war is something that is happening a long way away – something they only see on TV or on their phones. The killing of a Russian general in Moscow is a sign that this war is very real and very close to home.”

Russia has vowed to retaliate for the murder of Igor Kirillov. Zelensky and his cronies in Kiev are no doubt bracing themselves. The British werewolves of London might want to re-check their security arrangements, too.

Questions have to be asked about how Russian security services. How could they be so easily penetrated only a few kilometers from the Kremlin – and not for the first time? Only last week, a senior missile scientist, Mikhail Shatsky, was shot dead in Moscow in an attack ascribed to Ukrainian secret services.

But also it should be questioned if Russia is being too soft in exacting revenge. Should the masterminds of terrorist operations beyond the puppets in Kiev not also be “legitimate targets,” as the British are so fond of saying?

"Kiev regime assassins Russian General to hide the truth about bioweapons" by Lucas Leiroz

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Kiev regime assassins Russian General to hide the truth about bioweapons

Lucas Leiroz

December 18, 2024

Kirillov’s death, caused by a Ukrainian terrorist attack, represents a turning point in the realm of modern geopolitics.

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In a bold and lethal move, a terrorist attack carried out by Ukrainian intelligence operatives in Moscow killed Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian Federation’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense Forces, along with his main advisor. Kirillov, one of the most important figures in Russian national security, became a strategic target due to his investigations revealing the complex and shadowy ties between the West, Ukraine, and the bioweapons research laboratories. His death is not only a blow against Russia but also a critical turning point in international relations, involving the controversy surrounding biological laboratories, the pharmaceutical industry lobby, and, inevitably, Kiev’s connections to U.S. politics.

Kirillov’s investigation into biological laboratories

Since the beginning of Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine in 2022, Igor Kirillov had been denouncing the existence of bioweapons research laboratories in Ukrainian territory. These laboratories, operating under the guise of “scientific research” and funded by global actors such as the Soros Foundation, Big Pharma companies, and even influential members of the Biden family, have been accused of developing biological weapons aimed at Russia.

In public statements, Kirillov warned of the growing risk posed by these biolaboratories, pointing out that their goal was to create a “universal package” of genetically modified biological pathogens to target Russian people, cattle, and crops simultaneously. The development of such weapons could potentially cause a catastrophe of epic proportions, destroying Russian food production and decimating the population. Once Russia became aware of these activities, it had no choice but to launch a military operation to dismantle these dangerous research centers.

Moscow also raised suspicions that, without early intervention, Ukraine, with U.S. support, could have launched a large-scale biological attack against Russia. This attack would target Russian public health by releasing multiple lethal viruses and bacteria simultaneously, with the aim of creating catastrophic chaos.

The truth obscured by a media blockade

The greatest obstacle Russia faced in exposing these threats was the absolute silence of the Western media. In the European Union, the United States, and even the Global South, an iron curtain was raised on the subject, with most media outlets ignoring or discrediting Kirillov’s revelations. However, Russia believed that without its military operation and the dismantling of bioweapons laboratories in the early days of the conflict, the country would have been vulnerable to a biological attack of catastrophic magnitude.

Furthermore, during the eight years following the Euromaidan coup, citizens of Russian-majority regions in Ukraine were subjected to a series of biological experiments. These included tests of new chemical and biological substances, some of which were administered under the guise of “voluntary treatments” or even by force, as in the case of prisoners or ethnic Russian low-ranking soldiers. The ultimate goal of these experiments was to understand the genetic characteristics of Russians in order to develop even more lethal and ethnically targeted pathogens, thus creating ethnically directed mass destruction biological weapons.

Big Pharma’s involvement and Hunter Biden

In addition to the evidence of involvement by organizations such as the Soros Foundation, another crucial point in Kirillov’s reports was the connection with Big Pharma companies. He spared no effort in revealing the role of pharmaceutical giants such as Pfizer and Moderna in financing bioweapons research in Ukraine. The claim that these corporations were associated with the development of biological weapons was not merely speculative, having several captured documents proved the whole truth. In the same vein, the involvement of influential members of the U.S. government and their families, including Hunter Biden, in contracts and initiatives related to Ukrainian biolabs was a central issue in his revelations. The U.S. president’s son was of the main financial supporters of the biolabs, which were part of his corruption schemes in Ukraine.

Kirillov’s death, therefore, is not only a significant loss for Russia but also a grim reflection of global corporate interests and the biological risks the Western powers were willing to take in their reckless pursuit of hegemony. The pharmaceutical lobby, with its vast networks of influence, found itself in an uncomfortable position after 2022, when several countries began questioning the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, as well as dismantling the mandatory vaccination campaigns that had been previously fervently promoted.

Kirillov’s sacrifice and the future of the conflict

The death of Igor Kirillov represents a tragic chapter in the global confrontation currently taking place on Ukrainian soil, but it also serves as a dramatic allegory of the hidden tensions between the great powers. While Russia continues to expose the West’s involvement in creating biological threats, the global mainstream media watches in silence, more interested in preserving its narratives than facing the truth about a global power struggle involving the use of biotechnology as weapons.

By revealing these threats, Kirillov had become one of the greatest obstacles to Western hidden interests. His death, caused by a Ukrainian terrorist attack, represents not only a loss for Russia’s national security but also a turning point in the realm of modern geopolitics.

Read or listen: "Syrian Terrorist Wanted by NATO Terrorists ‘Reinvents’ Himself" by Rusere Shoniwa

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	Syrian Terrorist Wanted by NATO Terrorists ‘Reinvents’ Himself Rusere Shoniwa Dec 16   READ IN APP   Bassem Youssef on X: Al-Jolani reinvented For more than 20 years, the US-NATO empire has been pretending to fight Al Qaeda (AQ) terror groups all over the Middle East. Having just installed a rebranded AQ outfit, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), in Syria, the CIA has had its cover story well and truly shot to pieces. It’s not that we didn’t know that Al Qaeda was Al CIA-da[i] a long time ago. It’s just that new depths have been plumbed, And that’s quite an achievement given how low they’d already sunk. As unexpected as the fall of the Assad regime in Syria was, its driving force was rapidly discernible. The CIA, Mossad, Turkey and MI6 have finally accomplished their regime-change mission, which began in 2011. The fact that they used the rebranded AQ outfit HTS to do it is a minor detail. When the US-NATO empire uses its terror outfits to terrorise us, they are called terrorists. When the empire uses its terror outfits to smash its enemies, they are called rebels. The US State Department still has a $10m bounty on the HTS leader’s head, Mohammad al-Jolani, who has been a designated terrorist for more than 10 years. The State Department’s charge sheet of al-Jolani’s misdemeanours reads: “Al-Jawlani leads the al-Nusrah Front (ANF), al-Qa’ida’s (AQ) affiliate in Syria. In January 2017, ANF merged with several other hardline opposition groups to form Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). While al-Jawlani is not the leader of HTS, he remains the leader of AQ-affiliated ANF, which is at the core of HTS. Under al-Jawlani’s leadership, ANF has carried out multiple terrorist attacks throughout Syria, often targeting civilians.” Putting him to good use on CIA regime change operations is certainly one way of saving $10m on the CIA budget. One day you’re rampaging around Syria and Iraq supervising beheadings in your role as deputy to the founder of ISIS. The next day you’re in CIA-issue green fatigues being photographed by CNN looking wistfully into the distance, contemplating how to keep the US-NATO empire happy. In BBC speak, it’s called ‘reinventing’ yourself. If he plays his cards right, all will be forgiven. And Al CIA-da in Syria have so far been playing their cards right by following the script handed to them. They’ve pledged undying love for Israel – they’re on record as saying they “love Israel” – and they “will go for full peace with Israel”. They even took time out of their busy schedule to be interviewed by The Times of Israel, requesting their Israeli paymasters to “plant a rose in the Syrian garden” and “support the Syrian people”. Reuters has confirmed that Syria’s new rulers are reading from the script handed to them by BlackRock and the World Economic Forum, proving (if proof were needed) that neo-liberal market economics is a highly versatile app compatible with any ideology, including the recently updated version of extremist Salafism 2.0. While we’re on the subject of following the money, let’s not forget that Syria, up until now, was blocking a natural gas pipeline project between Qatar and Turkey. Qatar’s natural gas reserves, estimated at approximately 896 trillion cubic feet (14% of the world’s known reserves), are not reaching Western markets in the most cost-efficient way. That project is now back on the table. And while we’re on the subject of Qatar, it’s not my intention to upset the Al CIA-da fans at the Qatari-funded Middle East Monitor, but I’m afraid there are some wrinkles in the fabric of the inorganic, in fact very genetically modified, ‘rebels’. It would be understating it to say they haven’t quite yet mastered pronoun culture. Syria’s new Minister of Justice plans to solve the pronoun dilemma by simply banning women judges, and ordering them to hand over their case load to the blokes who really know how to do law and justice. It remains to be seen how Clarissa Ward, head of CNN News’ Drama Production Unit, will paper over that little crack. Still on the subject of Qatar, Jonathan Cook had this piece unceremoniously pulled from the Qatar-funded Middle East Eye. I’m guessing it had something to do with a reference to “the rich Gulf lapdogs” of the US-NATO empire. What the Middle East Monitor’s celebratory opinion pieces don’t tell you is that, from its inception, the insurgency against the Assad regime was backed and funded by NATO allies and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. HTS is mainly supported by Turkey, which supplies the training and equipment, while Qatar generously provides funding. The Fall of Bashar – from a Syrian Army officer’s perspective is an interesting first-hand account from inside the Syrian army. If you trust it, and I think I do, the most important revelation for my money is this, in the words of a senior Syrian Army Officer: 5th December: “[timestamp 15:00] The problem we have is this unexplained withdrawal [of Syrian troops]. We had the upper hand in Homs. They [Syrian Army] left 70 operational tanks behind when we were ordered to withdraw from Homs. Those ordered to go are knocking their heads against the wall in frustration…Nobody knows if the orders being issued to the troops are coming from the president.” [emphasis added] 9th December: “We got betrayed by President Bashar al-Assad himself. I know this for a fact. The orders to withdraw from Homs were given just as he was about to board his flight for Moscow… The port of Latakia was bombed by Israel today. Erased, written off the map. It doesn’t exist anymore. But the Russian airbase remains untouched.” [emphasis added] Russia’s military assets in Syria remain intact, and Moscow is in discussions with Al CIA-da in Syria to retain its two bases – a naval base in Tartous and the Khmeimim Air Base near the port city of Latakia. Middle East Eye (also Qatari-funded) reports this as a done deal. My interpretation of this is that Russia has done a deal with NATO powers. It has traded Syria for a favourable settlement to the conflict in Ukraine, which may see Ukraine remaining a neutral country and Russia keeping the territories in the East that it has taken. The larger question behind this speculation is the extent to which deals made by all of these so-called sovereign powers are ultimately mediated by the true global hegemon – the Owners and Controllers of Global Financial Capital (OCGFC). The fall of Syria may have come as a surprise to us, but I doubt that it was a surprise to the global planners. It is part of an end game. HTS is under Turkish and American intelligence control. As of 15th December, Israel had carried out close to 800 airstrikes in Syria, comprehensively destroying all of its military capability, and paving the way for Israel’s further occupation of more Syrian land without any resistance. It has cut off the supply line between Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon, which is a major blow to Palestinian anti-Zionist resistance, such as it was. Syrian airspace has effectively been converted to Israeli airspace, greatly increasing Israel’s strike potential against Iran. The AQ coup in Syria is set to instigate a carve-up into separate enclaves governed by militias under the control of different factions of the US empire alliance. It looks as though Aleppo, Idlib and Homs will fall under Turkish supervision; Damascus and Daraa will be governed by a Saudi/UAE/Jordan coalition; Israel will control Suwayda in the South; and the Kurds will be under US supervision in the East. Syria has been overtaken by AQ, which is a proxy of the Zionist US empire. To say that this is no improvement in either Syrian or Palestinian prospects is putting it mildly. One can both acknowledge the deep divisions within Syria caused by Assad’s rule and recognise that this latest development is a serious geopolitical downgrade from an anti-imperialist perspective. These are not mutually exclusive positions. Anyone who recognises this has been attacked by HTS sympathisers as a misguided grouping lazily labelled ‘the international left’. This label is actually code for anyone sensible who realises that the takeover in Syria by the NATO-backed HTS is a victory for Zionism, and the attack by HTS sympathisers is a thinly disguised distraction to hide the embarrassment of effectively siding with Israel instead of with Palestinians and against imperialism. The analysis by a certain section, or should I say sect, of the independent media is decidedly off. These are outlets and influencers who, until now, appeared to have burnished their credentials as anti-Zionist. The revelation for me was that they seem to despise Shia Iran and the former Alawite regime in Syria more than they despise Zionism. The collateral damage in this tribal hate fest are the Palestinians. The celebratory, or at least unduly optimistic, posture adopted by the likes of Middle East Monitor on the takeover of Syria by Al CIA-da ‘rebels’ is music to Israel’s and the US-NATO empire’s ears. Maajid Nawaz’s analysis ranks as one of the more curious propaganda pieces I’ve seen in the last week or so. His reference to the situation in Syria as a “People’s liberation” and a “genuinely popular uprising” is more risible than Clarissa Ward’s ridiculous amateur dramatics propagandising the ascent of NATO’s Salafist stooges [emphasis added]. Exactly which part of the Turkey-CIA-Mossad regime change operation was planned by the People? Which of the 800 Israeli airstrikes on Syrian military targets, gazed on lovingly by the ‘rebels’, had popular approval? When did the People agree to more of the Golan Heights being stolen from under their noses while the plucky ‘rebels’ stepped aside and gawped at Israeli chutzpah? As Craig Murray succinctly observes: “If Syria is so free, why are all the foreign powers that cooperated to install its new government meeting today in Jordan to determine its future?” Nawaz speaks of a “grand regional settlement” on the horizon, but doesn’t define the outcome of this settlement. So, using the current geopolitical trajectory as a logical springboard, I’ll fill in the blanks for him: · Israel resumes its brutality in Lebanon on the assumption of a weakened Hezbollah army. · The US and Israel attack Iran to consolidate the US-NATO empire hold on the Middle East and advance the Greater Israel project. · Israel finishes the filthy job it started but failed to complete in 1948 – ethnically cleansing or exterminating Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank. If this is Nawaz’s vision of “the wider grand peace settlement”, then he should be able to sleep more comfortably since 9th December – the chances of it have greatly increased with the installation of Al Qaeda in Syria. Guess how many times the word “Palestinian” came up in Nawaz’s analysis of a grand peace settlement? Zero. That tells me all I need to know about Nawaz’s vision for the Middle East – for him, as for Israel, Palestinians are gone. They don’t even require a cursory mention. As for Syrians themselves, the aim of these CIA/Mossad-led regime change operations in the Middle East is not stability and prosperity. It is chaos and instability. That is what Israel craves to justify its perpetual victimhood and provide further pretexts for aggression in the region. That is what the arms manufacturers need to steal more of our money. That is what the New World Order planners need to justify crises serving as pretexts for rule by state-of-emergency and more population control. The peace pipe Nawaz is smoking is not going to be passed around by Israel and NATO, and they, together with their reliable ally Turkey, are the ones driving this war machine. The GCC lapdogs are passengers going along for the ride. I believe that a new geopolitical paradigm is required to understand the end game. Those with eyes to see accept that the entire West is a plutocracy in which the major political parties contesting national elections are controlled by powerful vested corporate interests. We also understand that global financial capital has subsumed national government power and that the covid-19 psychological operation was the first salvo in a global coup d'état by a financial technocracy. And yet many, if not most, find it difficult to embrace the possibility that global financial capital is also mediating conflict at the global level. There are disagreements within the global financial oligarchic system, and those differences are varied and complex. But there is one thing that now unites our overlords more than ever – an understanding that the entire global population must be oppressed if they are to preserve their hold on concentrated wealth underpinned by a global power structure. The so-called emerging multipolar world order is a Punch and Judy show put on by the OCGFC to install a world order controlled by financial capital. The savagery of war, with its needless indiscriminate killing, is the ultimate human crisis that the parasitic class has come to depend on to advance its agendas of concentrating wealth and imposing greater controls on the mass of humanity, which it fears and despises. To that end, a showdown with Iran is virtually inevitable. Perhaps the most galling aspect of it all is that the parasitic controllers are confident there is no risk to them, which is why they are hurtling down this path. They believe they will achieve their aims regardless of who emerges as the victor in any conflict. If Iran is to prevail, it will likely have to rely on some level of support from Russia and China. In which case, the parasitic class will pull the financial levers of a BRICS-led world order. If Iran is destroyed, they believe they can rule over a Zionist world order – an even more Zionist order than the current one we’re living in, if you can imagine such a horror. As with national elections, the Establishment has a preferred choice, and the criteria are actually quite similar to those used in the election fraud – which fork in the road will hoodwink the masses more effectively? But rest assured that either way, war is the ‘problem’ presented to the people, and the ‘solution’ remains the same – a global public-private partnership fronted by the UN, in which local freedom and autonomy are sacrificed at the altar of a carbon-rationed, global digital gulag. And all the global world powers, under the direction of the OCGFC, are firmly signed up to that dystopia. Every manufactured crisis, every war, is designed to lead us into that pen. That is why the global Establishment always cooperate with each other at crucial moments. That is why none of them should be trusted or supported. That is why Syrian troops were betrayed and ordered to stand down in Homs. If Biden’s, Putin’s, Trump’s, Starmer’s or Xi’s sons and daughters were sent to die in the battlefield, I might change my mind. We know that’s not going to happen.

"Alex Krainer on False Flag Warnings and 'Syria Trap'" by Kevin Barrett

  

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Alex Krainer on False Flag Warnings and "Syria Trap"

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Market analyst and investor Alex Krainer wonders whether by suddenly giving up Syria without a fight, Iran and Russia may have set a trap for the Zio-American Empire: “This surprised nobody. The (claim) that they came by surprise is just is inconceivable to me. That the Russians signed a truce with duplicitous backstabbing Erdogan and then they completely took their eye off the ball and just thought that ‘we have nothing to worry about there’—that’s inconceivable to me. And so the only explanation that makes sense to me is that this was by design. Also, the way the Syrian army folded, it wasn’t just one place. It was a place after place after place after place. From the top, too. It was coordinated. So they were given orders to pull back, to demobilize, to melt away. And then the question is why?

“The only place you walk into that easily is a trap. And so once you remember, how did the West finally break the Soviet Union? They drew them into Afghanistan. So that was the Soviet Union’s quagmire. It’s actually not rocket science.”

We’ll also discuss Alex’s warning that London may be in the crosshairs for a false flag attack.

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Kevin Barrett: So Alex, should we start with the London webcams? Have they been turned back on? Whatever happened to those?

Alex Krainer: I have no idea whether they’ve been turned back on. Last I checked was a few days ago, and they were not. They were still black. What happened since then, because it’s been about 10 days since I posted my article, I assume that they’re still black. I guess I could check, but I’m assuming that they’re black.

For me, that’s a very suspicious thing because there are several hundred webcams around London. And since I published my article, a handful of people wrote back and they said oh, look, this one’s working and this one’s working. And in fact, it turned out to be two of them working. Two or three people wrote back that the one on Abbey Road is working, and I checked. It is. And then a couple of them pointed out another one. I forget which one. It’s working.

But all the other ones are black. So that’s not something that can happen randomly, just by some random error that all of a sudden several hundred webcams go offline or go black all at the same time. And I found it very, very alarming because somebody obviously had to make a decision about that. It’s a major European city. What’s the reason why the webcams should be off? To me, the likely reason for that is that they are preparing a false flag attack and that they are hiding evidence.

Let’s suppose that they are going to detonate a nuclear device above London, or a dirty bomb or some kind of a very big explosion. Maybe they would spend a few months shipping out the artwork, shipping out the gold, whatever valuable things they don’t want to be destroyed or don’t want to be looted. And they might be shipping in the explosives. And so maybe it’s better that no evidence of that remains recorded anywhere.

So that could be the reason. But why would our venerable leaders in the West, our dear leaders, do such a nefarious thing? Well, as we know—and I documented this in my article that I published a few days ago—we’ve had several among the most prominent Western leaders, among whom General Mark Milley and Boris Johnson and President Morawiecki of Poland, all saying the same thing: that, quote-unquote, “if we lose in Ukraine, it will be the end of Western hegemony. We will lose the world for generations.” Statements to that effect, and some of them in those exact words.

So how big are the stakes? The stakes are huge.

And we have seen them desperately trying to somehow engineer consent for war in Europe among the Western public. Because we know that there’s no willingness among the Western public to escalate the war, to go collectively to war against Russia, to start another world war on the European continent. And so perhaps consent could be obtained if you had some kind of a very very emotionally charged event, something very spectacular, visible to everyone, happen. And then they could say, oh look at what the Russians have done to us! Now we have to go and kill them!

A mushroom cloud over London would be pretty iconic.

A mushroom cloud over London would be one of those indelible images that would stay with us for all eternity. And if West prevailed in this war by any chance, it would be enshrined in history that Russia dropped a nuclear bomb on London.

And then these recent provocations with storm shadow missiles and the ATACAMs also work to that angle. Because all of a sudden, the Western powers that decided, all of them, the United States included, to authorize Ukraine to launch long range, Western provided missiles to strike deep into Russia. Strategically, that doesn’t change anything. It’s not going to change the trajectory of the war. It’s not going to turn things around for Ukraine. They can inflict some pain on the Russians, blow up a few things, kill a few people, but that’s it. They can’t win the war.

And Vladimir Putin has made it very plain that we understand that this is not Ukraine attacking us, because it’s not Ukraine’s weaponry. Ukrainians are not capable of targeting those weapons, of programming their trajectories, of selecting the targets. Ukrainians can provide the real estate and maybe pull the trigger, but everything else has to be prepared and programmed by Western technicians.

So the Russians understand perfectly that this is an attack by Western powers against Russia proper, which is an act of war. So it seems to me that the only reason why they would be doing it since it’s exacerbating risks of escalation, but it cannot turn around the trajectory of the war, is to provoke a response from Russia. So that the Russia says okay, so now you, the French, you, the British, you, the Americans, are striking at us. Now we’re going to strike back at you. And then, you know, they get to invoke NATO Treaty Article 5. And then you have the confrontation between Russia and the collective West, NATO.

But the Russians are not stupid. They’re not buying the provocation. They’re not falling for it. And they will not strike at any NATO target outside of Ukraine. So in that case, you have to do it yourself, right?

If we look at the history of warfare over centuries around the world, when the ruling establishment has to mobilize their populations, the whole of society effort to go and kill their adversaries for them, to win their war for them, they routinely organize false flag attacks. When we needed to go to start global war on terror, they somehow orchestrated the 9/11 attacks. I hope this is not news to anybody.

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Let’s look at Syria then. I would have thought that maybe what happened with Syria was that Russia and the Zio-American empire cut a deal and said, okay, we see Ukraine’s going down one way or another. And so the American side sees Trump’s coming in, new people there who are willing to get out of Ukraine and stop that war. So to let you do that, you’re going to have to give us Syria. And so that would be one explanation for why the Syrian resistance to this so-called liberation from Assad just melted away like nothing.

However, there’s another explanation which may be partly compatible, and that is what you offered in a recent video interview in which you suggested that it was a trap, that you can’t walk that easily into victory. If you walk in that easily, it’s got to be a trap. And you compare this to the Russian bear trap set by Brzezinski when Brzezinski confessed to a French magazine, I think it was Le Point, that he had baited the Russian bear into coming into Afghanistan in order to finish off the USSR. And so maybe the Russians are going to have their revenge by turning the Zionists and the Americans loose on Syria and making it their project and their liability and their responsibility. And maybe that’s not going to work out too well for them.

And so I think you may be onto something. In particular, though I don’t think you stressed this, what I would add to your analysis is that the Russians may see that the U.S. leadership is dominated by Zionists. And the Zionists are willing to sacrifice American imperial interests and strategies in service to their maniacal, delusional Zionist craziness. And so (the Russians say) “let’s let the Americans get hijacked by the Zionists and go insane in Syria and the Middle East. The Americans already lost $8 trillion (on the 9/11 wars for Israel). They lost all their soft power going along with this Zionist 9/11 thing. So let’s get them bogged down in the Middle East again, and get them doing irrational things, because they’re under total Zionist control. The American empire is going to do crazy self-destructive things now. Let them have Syria.” So, yeah, that actually makes a certain amount of sense.

Netanyahu and his merry gang of Zionists have been absolutely desperate to get the Americans to go and kill Iran for them. And so this is a ploy to do it while Biden is still in power. If Scott Ritter’s right, this incursion from Idlib was meant to take place in March of next year, and that they rushed it to take place at the end of November. What induced them to do that? I don’t know exactly, but from the information we have so far, there have been extensive discussions between the Arab state on behalf of the Americans with Bashar al-Assad to try to induce him to distance himself from Iran and from Hezbollah in exchange for normalization with the West, for easing of sanctions and for stabilizing Syria’s economy. These talks were quite advanced and somehow it was arranged that the information about these talks gets to Erdogan as well. And supposedly this panicked him because he sees a threat in it from the point of view of Americans using the Kurds as a lever against him to destabilize Turkey.

And so to my mind, there are two possibilities. Either he reacted to this or he was in cahoots with the Russians and the Iranians and launched this incursion prematurely with the view of pushing the US, UK, NATO and Israel under the bus. The other possibility is that he did it because he wanted to take chunks of Syria and that he has this undying obsession with recreating the Ottoman Empire and consolidating the greater Turania all the way to Turkestan. Okay, it’s plausible, but he would have to be unrealistic, naive, even stupid. Because in this, he’s relying on the Western powers. Particularly MI6 has been trying to bait Erdogan to ally himself with Britain and Poland and Ukraine against Russia. And the bait was the great Turania under Turkish leadership, under Erdogan’s leadership as his legacy.

And quickly tell us, what is Turania precisely?

If you go from Turkey eastwards all the way to China, you have like a whole belt which is populated by Turkic people. You know, Xinjiang province in China, and then, you know, all the Stans, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and so forth. These are all Turkic people. And this was allegedly offered to Erdogan as his big reward for allying himself with the UK, Poland and Ukraine in this war against Russia in Ukraine. And so this, you know, we know that the MI6 have been very, very busy in Turkey, trying to seduce Turkey into working with them on these Eurasian agendas.

But the US, and probably MI6 also, tried to orchestrate a coup and assassinate Erdogan in 2016. Europe has been stringing along Turkey about their EU membership forever. Turkey has been humiliated by the West repeatedly and treated as a second fiddle. While at the same time, Russia has designated Turkey as the main natural gas hub towards Western markets. They are completing a large nuclear power plant in Turkey as we speak, and they have a program of training up Turkish nuclear engineers.

And remember, Russia saved Erdogan after the US-sponsored coup attempt.

Exactly. The Russians saved Erdogan when they try to assassinate him. And then Russia also financed indirectly, not directly, but indirectly Russia provided money for Turkey during Erdogan’s last presidential elections. So they’ve been helping him extensively for a very long time, while the West has been trying to push Turkey around, regime change it, assassinate Erdogan. They yanked out this F-16 program from Turkey.

So it’s been a bad relationship. And then I believe that the West has already been strategically defeated, both in Ukraine and in the Middle East. And so the idea that Erdogan somehow ended up throwing his lot with the defeated side, which has also been dealing in bad faith with him for a long time, is kind of hard for me to believe.

And then, in the aftermath of the Idlib incursion, we see that…It’s silence. Neither the Russians nor the Chinese are saying much. The Chinese are not saying anything. The Iranians are not saying much. Business as usual continues. The cooperation continues. The investments continue. The Iranians just announced a large, multi-billion dollar investment in Turkey.

So my bet is that this was a similar type of trap set up for the Western Empire as the CIA and Zbigniew Brzezinski set up for the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. And then there’s also the wider context that works with this idea, and that is the fact that both Russia and China want to create a completely new security architecture on the Eurasian continent, because the one we have today is the vestige of British geopolitics, Mackinder’s idea of surrounding the pivot area with an arc of crises, with all these bridgeheads through which wars would constantly be orchestrated to weaken the pivot powers and to keep them always at war, always dependent on Western aid, finance, trade, weaponry, and so forth. And it was basically the British approach to ruling the continent by divide and conquer. And so that’s what we’ve had. constant wars in this region, this arc of crisis in the south of the pivot area.

The pivot area is the expanse defined by Halford Mackinder as the expanse encompassing Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus, parts of Iran and Kazakhstan and all the way to Afghanistan. And so for the British Empire, this was the optimal geographic area where they deemed that an alternative empire was going to emerge because it was so very rich in resources and population. And (they feared) that such an empire would be much more powerful than a sea empire like the British Empire was. And so they saw it as existential, particularly after the Russians in introduced the Trans-Siberian Railway, because they deemed that that railway would then catalyze development by providing infrastructure and transport and communications. And that from there, this new, very powerful land-based empire would emerge inaccessible to maritime commerce.

And the Belt and Road is the recent version of that.

Exactly, exactly. That’s part of it. That’s definitely, that’s almost exactly what the Brits knew they feared. And at the time, they were especially worried if Russia and Germany should ally themselves one against the other. They didn’t really see China emerging as a potential rival, but by the end of his life, I think in one of his last papers, Mackinder did actually hypothesize that it might actually be China that emerges as a power and then Russia and China together become this alliance that would ultimately shift power from Anglo-American empire to this other emerging pivot power.

Mackinder was talking about the bridgeheads being France, Italy, Egypt, India, Korea. Then we had formation of independent Ukraine, Israel. India was divided into Pakistan and India, the Koreas were divided South and North. We have these flashpoints everywhere and they’re almost constantly at war. So this is what the Russians and the Chinese want to pacify, to have a millennium of peace for the future. And it looks like that may be a real possibility.

So even in the wake of this apparent catastrophe in Syria, it seems that the Saudis and the Iranians and even the Turks, who supposedly just did this and clobbered the Iranians and the Russians, actually, they’re all maybe somewhat on the same page. Well, let’s hope so. And let’s hope that they don’t blow up London and blow up the world. And if they don’t, I’ll have you back again before too long and celebrate.